From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlong-distanceˌlong-ˈdistance ●○○ adjective [only before noun]1FARtravelling over a long distancelong-distance runnerlong-distance lorry driverlong-distance travel/journey/flight/commuting etc2 →long-distance call —long-distance adverbExamples from the Corpuslong-distance• Long-distancebus service now links the cities.• Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alonelong-distance calls.• It came at last, a hugelong-distancecoach, with high steps in the doorway.• The development of long-distancecommerce led to greater culturalcontacts between continents.• He predicts that at least one in 10 long-distancecustomers will jump to the regionalBelloperating companies, or BOCs.• We should therefore seekevidence for long-distanceexchange as indications of political alliances and the growth of centralised political organisation.• There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distancelorries.• Long-distancephone calls have gotten so much cheaper.• Instead, they pay basiclong-distance rates, which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.• A visitor to Keld does not have to be a long-distancewalker to enjoy the scenicdelights of the environs.long-distance runner• No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister's stamina as, politically, a long-distance runner.• This is the loneliness of the long-distance runner.• Even with recentimprovements, the air could keep sprinters and long-distance runnerswheezing through their events.• Occasionally long-distance runners would jog past, chatting quietly, their dailydevotions almost done.
